And that’s not all, for the week ending Dec 13th, there were 815 new snowfall records set. December 2009 is shaping up to be quite the snowmaker. Here’s a map showing continental USA records:
Here is the daily count data from NCDC, with links to tabular reports and source for the snowfall records:
Dec 20th 124
Dec 21st 50
Dec 22nd 75
Dec 23rd 71
Dec 24th 170
Dec 25th 235
Dec 26th 152
Total 877 (CONUS and Alaska)
Many of the records have been bested significantly, and there were a number of all time records broken as well.
For example, December 24th and 25th all time records:
Click tables for original source reports from NCDC.
Note that we saw the majority of records from the most recent snowstorm in places that are fairly far south of the major USA snow belt.
| 24 December 2009 | Lat | Lon | ASOS/
COOP |
COOP/
WBAN ID* |
Record
New (4) Tied (0) |
Previous
Record |
Previous
Date |
Period
of Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIV OF MINN ST PAUL, MN | 44.98 | -93.18 | COOP | 218450 | 6.7 in | 4.0 in | 9 Dec 2009 | 31 |
| SHERBURN 3 WSW, MN | 43.63 | -94.77 | COOP | 217602 | 4.0 in | 3.0 in | 22 Dec 2009 | 62 |
| OK CITY WILL ROGERS AP, OK (KOKC) | 35.39 | -97.60 | ASOS | 346661 | 14.1 in | 8.4 in | 10 Mar 1948 | 69 |
| POST, TX | 33.20 | -101.37 | COOP | 417206 | 9.2 in | 9.0 in | 15 Mar 1969 | 100 |
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@Snowed in in the UK
Marvelous article! Thank goodness for the Internet and keen readers.
But greenies will ignore all this, unfortunately. They still need a vision of world justice, which often turns into anti-Americanism. Obama is in a strange place.
Look actually what this does is give the AGW believers an opportunity to say, see we told you more moisture was going to be in the air!!!!
Seems to me that the number of records has a lot to do with the number of stations at any one time, and how long they have been in operation. If the number of stations increases dramatically, there should be lots of records–both high and low temps, snow, etc. How is this accounted for? Does anybody know?
>>Where are the equations? Where are the underlying principles of physics, >>the foundations of knowledge? Where is the science? Just where are >>tomorrow’s scientists and engineers going to come from??
China, India, Russia, Brazil… anywhere the Global Warming Agenda isn’t taught in schools.
GISS, CRU, etc, can adjust all of the past temperatures.
They can’t fudge precipitation data.
“Leon Brozyna (06:06:59) :
…Of course, this being Buffalo, we’ll probably get socked in New Year’s Eve.”
Weather.com shows 30-60% chance of “snow showers” for 8 of the next 10 days.
Please please please insert a preemptive paragraph that will snuff out the inevitable response from the doomers who will obviously attribute this to agw.
Haven’t we offended the Sun in all of this somehow? He gives us all of this wonderful 20th & 21st Century warming, and we took credit for it. Now we are getting the cold shoulder.
P Gosselin (05:03:39) :
> 2009 WUWT HIGHLIGHTS
> 15 January:
> WUWT VOTED BEST SCIENCE BLOG 2008
> …
> These highlights will be accompanied by the links shortly.
Links for all of these (and everything else) are at http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/
We got our annual “crop report” this Christmas from my dad’s cousin in Iowa. My grandfather and his brother moved there from Holland with their families in the 1920s. Her comments about the summer and autumn of ’09 were: a very difficult harvest; cool to cold; the corn never matured like it is supposed to; dry when it was needed to be wet and wet when it was supposed to be dry, requiring that all of the corn had to be dried out in the silos. Key in her comments was that they’d “never seen it like this before.”
True, weather is not climate, but 90 years of serious seasonal observation (because their livelihood depended on it) seems important to me. It’s direct observation with a purpose. All that other GISS and CRU stuff is modeling and, as it seems, has been consistently incorrect in predicting climate change.
‘Baton down the hatches’ or close the shutters, build the woodpile high and store the provisions all the way to the ceiling!
The alarmists have all gone into hibernation……… their silence is deafening, it’s all back to conservation and ‘greenery’, let them sleep.
Flopenhagen was too much and now winter bites and bites hard.
I must say the cold winters are ever so slightly missed by the oldies but we ain’t prepared for snow in li’l’ ole England anymore, heaven help us if it turns into a 62/63.
I said at the beginning of 09, that I thought we were in for a cold winter and further cold ones after 09/10 -( 2009 a warm year?? – not in Europe or North America!).
The AMO is cooling and the sun’s heading for a deep solar minimum sequence – blah blah…………the Met Office said the British Winter -09/10 would be mild and wet.
Enough said.
AGW is dead.
3,000 world cold records in July left us with ………”the warmest July in 2,000 years!” Hundreds of new colds in November gave us an abnormally warm November. This shall be mere frosting. Likely the warmest December in the last 12,000 years.
Forget the main stream media. The real roots of this movement, strangely enough, are in grade school and collage teachers.
College teachers are out of touch with the real world. They live in the insulated bubble of academia. They go to school for so long, all they know is school. They never get any experience in the real world of any industry. Therefore, they preach the socialist agenda because it sounds good on paper. The young people they teach do not protest because they don’t know any better yet. Their parents continue to give money to these colleges because they have no idea what their children are actually learning.
Grade school teachers despite having increased course work on classroom management are not required to take many classes in science. They cannot teach science because they don’t understand it themselves. Global warming was introduced to my children through Scholastic Magazine given out at school. The magazine is used as part of the curriculum. The teachers never questioned it. The children were frightened by it and peer pressure keeps anyone from dissenting. The parents are learning about global warming from their children as in 1984.
In fact it is harder for me to protest the fraud of global warming at my own school than it is to protest in the media. I run the risk of alienating myself and my children at school.
If anybody would like to send my schools a note telling them to stop teaching the global warming fraud with reasons why, I would be grateful.
Here are the principal’s emails: Vince.DiGrandi@WappingersSchools.org
Tom.Stella@wappingersschools.org
Perhaps I can do the same for someone else.
Thanks in advance.
Patrick Davis (02:57:38) : Both sides of the pacific at the same temperature, I would use your same words to describe what happens here.
Pretty cool for summer, but at ~90% humidity it’s very sticky
Permanently covered skies and same humidity also. It looks like in the 1960´s.
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
Snowed in in the UK (04:12:22) : “fancy a giggle”
Snowed,
Thanks for the link to this story. Priceless! John
I find it curious that where most of the records are being set, is also where the glaciers will return.
God is going to finish off the global warming fraud this winter … Who says He doesn’t have a sense of humor.
Already, according to Politico, the Democrats are running for cover. Anyone know why all these science hoaxes that befuddle the world, from DDT on, are always pushed by Democrats. Want to take a guess?
From the way it looks, (that is looking at 12″ of new snow) the cap and scam of the Euro markets worked. They didn’t even have to actually change anything with the carbon level, in fact all they had to do was increase the corruption level-especially helpful since the mortgage scam market is down at the moment. Please, throw the bums out.
r,
You are absolutely correct in your assessment of education. I see a long term degradation in Western cultures because of this reduced knowledge being passed on to future generations. Once our edge is lost ideological wars become more likely.
“Jason S (07:43:31) :
Please please please insert a preemptive paragraph that will snuff out the inevitable response from the doomers who will obviously attribute this to agw…”
[sarcasm on]
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events is consistent with the theory of agw.
[/sarcasm off]
😉
r. you are full of it. I am a teacher. I see none of what you speak of in my districts. Your uninformed opinion is driving your statements, not serious investigation. This makes you no better than the agenda driven AGW’s whose “science” is based squarely on political opinion with precious few facts and analysis to back it up.
So here is my challenge. Back it up. Where is your data? What kind of serious investigation did you complete in order to arrive at your conclusion? Is this a local phenomenon or is it nation wide? Or Western Civilization wide? Step up to the plate and leave the platitudes behind.
Else you are an expert.
A has-been under pressure.
I have made an observation that the change in the Arctic Oscillation combined with El Nino could explain this weather pattern. Anyone care to discuss?
Snowed in in the UK (04:12:22) :
The Independant is still battling on in denial. Look at the story about ‘Climate Change in 2009’ at the bottom of the page. In it they say:
“…The situation was not helped by the selective leaking of private emails from a few climate change scientists.
This action, clearly calculated to cause maximum political damage before the Copenhagen summit, gave further impetus to the campaign of a few of the so-called “sceptics”, who seek every means available to discredit what is now very clear mainstream climate science. I suspect that history will regard this little flurry as comparable to the Battle of the Bulge – a last high impact but doomed counter-attack on what is ultimately an irresistible weight of evidence that underlines the gravest threat to human wellbeing. In any event it had almost no impact on the talks.”
@ur momisugly r, and Richard M:
There are two other points to be made in regard to teachers:
* once they’ve had enough of teaching, they become activists and politicians; where that leads to was nicely on display at COP15.
* when female, they look at AGW and all which is connected to it solely as ‘pollution’ – which is of course anathema to a female mind …
(Being of that gender, I am allowed to point this out without being shouted down as being a macho you-know-what!)
“Forget the main stream media. The real roots of this movement, strangely enough, are in grade school and collage teachers.
College teachers are out of touch with the real world. They live in the insulated bubble of academia. They go to school for so long, all they know is school. They never get any experience in the real world of any industry. Therefore, they preach the socialist agenda because it sounds good on paper. The young people they teach do not protest because they don’t know any better yet. Their parents continue to give money to these colleges because they have no idea what their children are actually learning.
Grade school teachers despite having increased course work on classroom management are not required to take many classes in science. They cannot teach science because they don’t understand it themselves. Global warming was introduced to my children through Scholastic Magazine given out at school. The magazine is used as part of the curriculum. The teachers never questioned it. The children were frightened by it and peer pressure keeps anyone from dissenting. The parents are learning about global warming from their children as in 1984.
In fact it is harder for me to protest the fraud of global warming at my own school than it is to protest in the media. I run the risk of alienating myself and my children at school.
If anybody would like to send my schools a note telling them to stop teaching the global warming fraud with reasons why, I would be grateful. ”
I hope you at least teach your children the truth. It doesn’t matter how uncomfortable it is for them. Have them learn the true science behind it. Besides, it would be good for them to be skeptical with soft issues like GW, and when mature enough learn the real heavy stuff like 1984.
@ur momisugly Pamela Gray (09:31:39) –
I am sorry if I have offended you with my post – I can name you a handful of prominent Labour politicians (female) who started out as teachers and have quite definitely not covered themselves in glory in their various posts as ministers. The former Home secretary Jacquie Smith is a ‘shining’ example.
Things might be different in the USA ..
Viv, all such agenda driven posts makes my blood boil. They are always posted as facts and not opinion. No one ever includes the exhaustive study done behind the conclusion. You included.
Stop. It makes you look like you are on the side of AGW and their corrupted scientific methods. How does your use of such ill-conceived methods bring about a conclusion you seem ready to hang your hat on?
I can name a handful of gay (but very closeted) politicians who don’t believe in AGW. What conclusion would you draw from that, given your method?
In my opinion, your conclusions regarding teachers and AGW hype is utter nonsense unless you can back it up with behavioral science worth a damn.